The now-6-year-old Bengal mix went missing from its family's home in Florida three years ago. The Tuttle family -- Sean, Stephanie and Emily -- searched unsuccessfully but ultimately assumed the animal had been stolen.

A Georgetown man brought a stray cat into the Brandywine Valley SPCA's Georgetown campus. Staff there found the cat's microchip, which identified it as Raja, and through some additional sleuthing, found the Tuttle family, now living in Virginia, said Linda Torelli, of the BVSPCA.